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The Battleground of Copyrights and Open-Source Software

Uberspace, the hosting provider of YouTube ripping software YouTube DL, has been forced to pull the website offline as a continuation of a dispute against major music players. Following a German court order in a copyright infringement lawsuit, the platform was taken down reaffirming the consequences of a previous court rule that softwares bypassing YouTube's rolling cipher download protection violates intellectual property law. In the comments, there were robust discussions about the rolling cipher and its necessity for use on YouTube. Also discussed: Orbital's album and Trachmobius, along with the complexities and intricacies of the music it contained.

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